Oct
29
2008
I am not sure if you feel the same way that I do but I am getting tired of having to update Word Press all the time. It seems that there is a new update monthly. I have the Auto update plug in but still it takes some time.
I would not mind if the changes were some really cool features but the last couple of updates did not amazing as I could see. They are normally just little tweaks that do not affect most bloggers.
How do you feel about all the updates? Seen anything awesome with any of them?
Jul
16
2008
Well it seems that another update has just been released by the creators of WordPress. Information regarding the update can be found on their blog. It seem that they are ahead of schedule and have made some new features.
I just did the upgrade for all my blogs and to be all honest, I have not found anything that just jumped out as all the new. However, the claims are that it fixed many bugs and there are some cool new features. Maybe I will see them as I need them.
For those of you who are planning to upgrade, I recommend one of two ways. The first way is the easiest but you had to have installed you blog through Fantastico which is a software installer available with many hosting accounts. All you have to do is go to the Fantastico page on your cpanel and hit upgrade and it does the whole thing for you.
If you transferred your blog or installed it yourself without the use of Fantastico, there is a easy to use plugin for WordPress that does the upgrading for you. This plugin is called WordPress Automatic Upgrade and it is easy to use and saves you the possibility of messing something up. I use it on this blog and it has worked great for the last two updates.
Of course, you can also do it manually and the instrutions are located here. This is not hard but I prefer the easy methods I described above. Upgrades can be a pain but they did fix a lot of bugs so I highly recommend you upgrade whenever a new version comes out. Please feel free to share any new features you discovered with the update by leaving a comment here.
Feb
13
2008
There are so many plugins when it comes to a WordPress blog. I use a few but one of the most important ones that I use for all my blogs is the All in One SEO Pack. As I mentioned in previous post, there are many things that are important when it comes to making your site ready for the search engines. However, to do some of them in WordPress requires you to do some template modification.
With the Seo Plugin, this is not necessary. This plugin will automatically install meta tags and descriptions for every post based off you tags and your posts. You can of course tweak this to your own descriptions but if you do not want to take the time, it will be done automatically.
The other cool feature of this plugin is that it will prevent your articles from being duplicated in the search engines. You can have categories, archives, tag clouds marked as not indexed which means the search engines will not follow the links and they will not be indexed more than once. This prevents problems with possible duplicate content penalties from the search engines.
All in all, if you have the ability and time to do all the work yourself, I recommend you change the template and do it the exact way you want. However, if like me, you have no interest in changing codes or messing with the template, this is the plugin for you. It can be used as is or can be tweaked to your needs. It is well worth adding it to your plugins and best of all it is free.
Just remember Search Engine Optimization is never done. You will always need to work harder to be number one. This plugin is just a small step in to building a number one blog.
